Escalation of EU Energy Sanctions: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Packages

... with ties to Russia. As with the US, the EU’s primary target for a long time was suppliers of export-controlled goods and industrial products to Russia that circumvented EU export controls. However, since July 2025, a trend has emerged of escalating secondary sanctions against Russia’s partners in the energy sector. Ivan Timofeev: New Sanctions as a Political Signal For example, the eighteenth package of sanctions included legal entities in third countries that, according to EU authorities, are involved in the transportation of Russian oil. These ...